Investigators ID source of deepfake calls simulating Biden's voice
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Thousands of AI-powered calls allegedly aimed to discourage participation in last month's New Hampshire Primary.

On Tuesday morning, Formella stepped up to a podium and announced the calls came from Life Corporation and Walter Monk of Texas.

  • ralphio@lemmy.world
    35·
    10 months ago

    Not sure how hard it would be, but if it’s possible the FCC really needs to get telecom companies to secure their systems to prevent number spoofing.

      • FireTower@lemmy.worldOP
        17·
        10 months ago

        Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs.

        They really wanted that acronym to sound cool. To be fair SBHAIUT doesn’t sound as good.

        • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
          20·
          10 months ago

          The name was inspired by Ian Fleming’s character James Bond, who famously prefers his martinis “shaken, not stirred”. STIR having existed already, the creators of SHAKEN “tortured the English language until [they] came up with an acronym.”

          Maria Hill: Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division. And what does that mean to you?

          Ward: It means someone really wanted our initials to spell S.H.I.E.L.D.

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
      3·
      10 months ago

      Sadly it became annoyingly complicated and manual with number porting. Previously you could have just implemented “we own these blocks, this isn’t in our block, drop the call” but with number porting there are a lot of one offs to track. Not saying they shouldn’t do it, but number portability screwed with things.

        • elrik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          It’s not even that many numbers when the entire list could fit in memory on a modest computer.

      • El Barto@lemmy.world
        31·
        10 months ago

        And there’s nothing I can do about it.

        Sure you can. Stop watching TV, use adblockers, and for the actual snail mail, yeah, that’s a harder one, but doable.

        • Randomgal
          2·
          10 months ago

          This may be luck and based on your location, but I tried placing a “No fliers please” post it on my mailbox, and it seems to have stopped all fliers.

          • El Barto@lemmy.world
            21·
            10 months ago

            Lol that’s called TV addiction! I was like you and now I am free.

            I’m assuming you’re talking about actual TV viewing, right? Like broadcast TV and cable TV?

            For snail mail, there are organizations that can help you with that. I can’t remember their names off the top of my head, but a quick search should help you.